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For the first time in 78 days, Joe Biden faced the media...sort of. For the most part, the conference was a miscellany of nonsense, weirdness, and lies. However, even the most determined, compulsive liars occasionally leak out the truth, and that’s what Biden gave himself the highest marks for: his job performance. If you understand what that performance actually was, rather than what he thinks it was, he did, sadly, exceed all exceptions. Biden’s scariest answers concerned Russia and Ukraine. We’ve currently reached a situation that has no good outcomes: Putin has massed troops on the border and can’t pull...

Chris Matthews, in his epic post-debate meltdown after the Romney-Obama debate, had the most telling line: “this was not an MSNBC debate.” Matthews and other liberals were particularly upset that Mitt Romney had managed to actually speak uninterrupted, occasionally running over his time and requesting opportunities to respond to things Obama said (although the final tally showed Obama spoke for 4 more minutes than Romney, owing largely to his “umms.”). Tonight was a different animal. Joe Biden came in with one game plan: don’t let voters hear a word Paul Ryan said. The post-debate count circulated by the RNC showed...